Julie Merriman Print E-mail

 

The act of drawing is at the centre of my practice and it reflects an interest I have in architecture, in particularly the phases of construction and demolition. I am interested in the idea of shadowing an architect’s work, in bringing a building back to the drawing board. Line is what interests my most in drawing; how it quickens, slows, stutters, reinvigorates, fades, overlaps….. Line is at the heart of all mark making; it can be utterly simple and yet incredibly complex. Drawing as a medium is not just used by artists but by many other professions; architects, engineers, scientist, cartographers, mathematicians… It’s a way of making all manner of information visible. I’d like to carry out research into the use of line by these other professions, extend my idea of ‘shadowing’ and develop my work in association with this.